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#ArticleSnapshot📸: Vera Keller's "Entangling Knowledge and Ignorance" examines Alain Corbin's Terra Incognita: A History of Ignorance in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (2021).

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ENTANGLING KNOWLEDGE AND IGNORANCE
This review essays situates Alain Corbin's Terra Incognita: A History of Ignorance in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries within current discussions of knowledge and ignorance related to intellec...
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November 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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#ArticleSnapshot📸: Bradley J. Irish's "Historical Neurodiversity Studies: A New Paradigm of Experience" looks at Emotion, Sense, Experience (2020) by Rob Boddice and Mark Smith.

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HISTORICAL NEURODIVERSITY STUDIES: A NEW PARADIGM OF EXPERIENCE
In Emotion, Sense, Experience (2020), Rob Boddice and Mark Smith put forth a paradigm-shifting argument for how we might employ experience as a master category of historical analysis—one that sees ma...
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November 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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#ArticleSnapshot📸: Jacob Collins's "On Decolonizing the Social Sciences" discusses George Steinmetz's The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought and examines the history and politics of decolonization in relation to the humanities and social sciences.

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ON DECOLONIZING THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
This review article discusses George Steinmetz's The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought, a history of the French social sciences and their colonial entanglements. Surveying a vast array of obj...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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#ArticleSnapshot📸: "All That Glitters: The Many Objects of Rome's Museum of Civilizations" by Arielle Xena Alterwaite analyzes "contemporary curatorial approaches of traditional ethnographic museums" using the Museo delle Civiltà.

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ALL THAT GLITTERS: THE MANY OBJECTS OF ROME'S MUSEUM OF CIVILIZATIONS
This review article examines the various methodologies practiced by Rome's Museum of Civilizations (Museo delle Civiltà) to discuss the contemporary curatorial approaches of traditional ethnographic ....
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October 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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#ArticleSnapshot📸: Our September 2025 issue includes the "Translation, Migration, Narrative" forum, with contributions by Christoph Rass, Julie M. Weise, Laura A. Zander, Catherine S. Ramírez, Albert Manke, Fredy González, Peter Schneck, Anand A. Yang, and Kirsten Silva Gruesz.
October 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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#ArticleSnapshot📸: Jakub Stejskal's "'Stranded on the Shores of History'? Monuments and (Art-)Historical Awareness" examines "historical awareness [that] attends to artifacts’ appearances in search of visual manifestations of relevance that can survive the loss of context."
October 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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#ArticleSnapshot 📸: Martin Jay's "Can History Absolve? Can History Judge?" examines the notion of the judgment of history as well as the relationship between, and the implications of, "divine judgment" and "historical judgment."

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October 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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#ArticleSnapshot📸: Terence Renaud's review article titled "Historical Antifascism and the Global Left" examines Joseph Fronczak's Everything Is Possible: Antifascism and the Left in the Age of Fascism.

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HISTORICAL ANTIFASCISM AND THE GLOBAL LEFT
Joseph Fronczak's Everything Is Possible: Antifascism and the Left in the Age of Fascism presents antifascism in the 1920s and 1930s as a universal cause that united people across social and ideologi...
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May 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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#ArticleSnapshot📸: Ian Hunter's review article titled "Creative Disintegration: The Perpetual Emergence of Modern Political Thought" discusses Michael Sonenscher's After Kant: The Romans, the Germans, and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought.

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CREATIVE DISINTEGRATION: THE PERPETUAL EMERGENCE OF MODERN POLITICAL THOUGHT
Michael Sonenscher's After Kant: The Romans, the Germans, and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought offers a rich overview of nineteenth-century French, Swiss, and German political thought....
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May 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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#ArticleSnapshot📸: Margrit Pernau's review article titled "Decolonizing Theory and Concepts: Perspectives from the Global South" discusses the book Changing Theory: Concepts from the Global South, edited by Dilip M. Menon.

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DECOLONIZING THEORY AND CONCEPTS: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH
Until recently, most concepts and theories used in social sciences and the humanities were developed in the West. They were both provincial, as they were based on Western experience and designed to i...
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May 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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#ArticleSnapshot📸: Based on her keynote address at the 2024 INTH Conference, Joan W. Scott's "'A Guesser in This Vale of Tears': On the Politics of History Writing" "makes 3 points about historians’ responsibilities in the current moment."

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“A GUESSER IN THIS VALE OF TEARS”: ON THE POLITICS OF HISTORY WRITING
The essay makes three points about historians’ responsibilities in the current moment. The first has to do with making sense of the present by bringing the past to bear on it—that is, offering to the...
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May 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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#ArticleSnapshot📸: In "'Civilization' or 'Empire'? 'China' as a Historical Entity in Contestation," Nagatomi Hirayama discusses the "civilization-to-nation" and "empire-to-nation" approaches to modern Chinese historical studies.

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“CIVILIZATION” OR “EMPIRE”? “CHINA” AS A HISTORICAL ENTITY IN CONTESTATION
Two distinct approaches have shaped the landscape of modern Chinese historical studies. One approach is the civilization-to-nation thesis, which examines modern China's difficult emergence out of its...
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May 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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#ArticleSnapshot📸: Abhishek Kaicker's "From Eternity to Apocalypse" examines an "interstitial history" and "the origins of the pervasive misconception that Mughal historical thought had faded to insignificance in the eighteenth century."

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FROM ETERNITY TO APOCALYPSE: TIME, NEWS, AND HISTORY BETWEEN THE MUGHAL AND BRITISH EMPIRES, 1556–1785
The eighteenth-century origins of colonial orientalism in India spurred not just the translation of Indian texts but the production of interstitial histories, works that were forged in the intellectu...
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May 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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#ArticleSnapshot📸: In "Philosophy of History as a Critique of Violence," Vinsent Nollet "develops a historical-philosophical rather than a political-theological interpretation of Benjamin's 'Critique of Violence.'"

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PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY AS A CRITIQUE OF VIOLENCE: HISTORY, THEOLOGY, AND POLITICS IN WALTER BENJAMIN'S EARLY WRITINGS
Walter Benjamin's “Critique of Violence” became a classical work on revolutionary politics mainly due to influential political-theological expositions of its arguments. The main challenge with the po....
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May 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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#ArticleSnapshot📸: Marnie Hughes-Warrington's "Ethics for Artificial Historians" calls for "a revised approach to the ethics of history."

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ETHICS FOR ARTIFICIAL HISTORIANS
Artificial historians do not need to have intentions to complete actions or to solve problems. Consequently, a revised approach to the ethics of history is needed. An approach to ethics for artificia...
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May 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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#ArticleSnapshot📸: Premesh Lalu's review essay in our March 2025 issue focuses on Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling by Erica Fretwell.

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SENSORY EXPERIMENTS, SENSORY ORDERS, AND AESTHETIC EDUCATION
Erica Fretwell's Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (2020) raises crucial questions about the making of a concept of difference through marshaling the senses to t...
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March 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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#ArticleSnapshot📸: Andrew Baird's essay in our March 2025 is a review of Singular Pasts: The “I” in Historiography, written by Enzo Traverso and translated by Adam Schoene.

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HISTORY, THEORY, VERTIGO: HOMODIEGESIS IN CONTEMPORARY HISTORIOGRAPHY
Enzo Traverso's Singular Pasts: The “I” in Historiography argues that contemporary historical writing is undergoing a “subjectivist turn” characterized by the increasing prevalence of first-person na...
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March 25, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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#ArticleSnapshot📸: Fernando Esposito's review essay in our March 2025 issue focuses on Der Riss in der Zeit: Kosellecks ungeschriebene Historik by Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann.

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WHY STILL KOSELLECK?
Those seeking to gain a deeper understanding of the complex interrelationship between Reinhart Koselleck's oeuvre and the turbulences of the Age of Extremes would be well advised to consult Stefan-Lu...
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March 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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#ArticleSnapshot📸: Clifford Siskin's "The Advancement of Knowledge Now" examines Information: A Historical Companion and asks, "Why is a volume that offers so much of value so unattuned to issues of advancement?"

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THE ADVANCEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE NOW, OR THE HISTORY OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
What role should history play in the advancement of knowledge? Because it was so “hard,” so “unbelievably difficult … to get people to believe” in his Great Renewal, Francis Bacon thought a history o...
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March 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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#ArticleSnapshot📸: In "Misfits, Power, and History," Andrew Flack and Alice Would "construct a critical history of 'ability' by focusing on the specific case study of dark-dwelling animals" and how "they have been understood over the course of modernity."
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MISFITS, POWER, AND HISTORY: RETHINKING ABILITY THROUGH AN ANIMAL LENS
In this article, we construct a critical history of “ability” by focusing on the specific case study of dark-dwelling animals and the ways in which they have been understood over the course of modern...
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March 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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#ArticleSnapshot📸: Paul Cheney's "Inheritance and Incest" shows that "Montesquieu's treatment of inheritance bears a remarkable homology with Lévi-Strauss's treatment of incest."

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INHERITANCE AND INCEST: TOWARD A LÉVI‐STRAUSSIAN READING OF MONTESQUIEU'S DE L'ESPRIT DES LOIS1
The premise of this article is that Montesquieu, while seen as an Enlightenment thinker who contributed centrally to the development of the social sciences before the period of discipline formation i...
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March 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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#ArticleSnapshot📸: In "The Stupid Nineteenth Century," Callum Barrell and Sara Raimondi "address the charge of 'stupidity' leveled at nineteenth-century thought by recent critical posthumanist and post-anthropocentric theorists."

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THE STUPID NINETEENTH CENTURY: PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY IN CRITICAL POSTHUMANIST AND POST‐ANTHROPOCENTRIC THOUGHT
This article addresses the charge of “stupidity” leveled at nineteenth-century thought by recent critical posthumanist and post-anthropocentric theorists. The article's first section traces a particu....
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March 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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#ArticleSnapshot📸: Ewa Domanska's "Revisiting Montaillou" examines Le Roy Ladurie's "novelistic writing style" and "historians’ criticisms of how Le Roy Ladurie used historical sources."

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REVISITING MONTAILLOU
Based on extensive scholarship in English and French, this article offers an analytical survey of both the laudatory and critical reception of Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's Montaillou (1975). I revisit t...
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March 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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#ArticleSnapshot📸: Carolyn J. Dean's #HistoryAndEthics article, "Bystanders, Jews, and Historical Interpretation," examines "the moral questions and historical claims implicit in the bystander category."

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BYSTANDERS, JEWS, AND HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION
This article revisits the vast historiography on everyday life in Vichy France to address the moral questions and historical claims implicit in the bystander category. It addresses how historians con...
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December 20, 2024 at 1:37 PM
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#ArticleSnapshot📸: Antoon De Baets's #HistoryAndEthics theme issue contribution is titled "Open Letters in Closed Societies: The Values of Historians Under Attack."

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OPEN LETTERS IN CLOSED SOCIETIES: THE VALUES OF HISTORIANS UNDER ATTACK
This article explores a question of practical ethics: To which values do historians appeal when they come under sustained attack from political power? An important instrument of historians living in ...
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December 20, 2024 at 1:30 PM